Terpsichore — Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects

Results in brief

Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects

This second periodic report presents the overall activities that have been carried out during the lifecycle of the Terpsichore project. Terpsichore project aims to research, analyse, develop, and implement innovative and collaborative research from heterogeneous stakeholders in multi-disciplinary sectors. The project targets at integrating the latest innovative results of photogrammetry, computer vision, semantic technologies, time evolved, 3D modeling, combined with the story telling and folklore choreography. Terpsichore involves collaboration with universities, and companies. The overall objective of this project is to support a set of services such as virtual/augmented reality, social media, choreography database, interactive maps, presentation and learning of European Folk danced with tremendous impact on the society, culture and tourism. The purpose of this report is to inform the stakeholders about the Terpsichore project’s achievements that have been carried out during the twenty-four months of its activity. In particular, this periodic report includes the main achievements with respect to the key communication tools, the publications and the scientific framework that the consortium has identified and selected, collaboration opportunities pursued, awareness raising actions and the financial statements prepared and presented. In addition, in this report is presented the overall framework and the transferred knowledge during the secondments and the clustering activities, the transferring knowledge from education activities, the international activities through organization of special sessions and workshops, the Terpsichore summer schools, the secondments training activities and the built-in return mechanism for knowledge sharing and long term collaboration.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) content means ""the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith"". Although, ICH content, especially traditional folklore performing arts, is commonly deemed worthy of preservation by UNESCO (Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH) and the EU Treaty, most of the current research efforts are on the focus is on tangible cultural assets, while the ICH content has been overlooked. The primary difficulty stems by the complex structure of ICH, its dynamic nature, the interaction among the objects and the environment, as well as emotional elements (e.g., the way of expression and dancers' style). TERPSICHORE aims to study, analyse, design, research, train, implement and validate an innovative framework for affordable digitization, modelling, archiving, e-preservation and presentation of ICH content related to folk dances, in a wide range of users (dance professionals, dance teachers, creative industries and general public) . The project targets at integrating the latest innovative results of photogrammetry, computer vision, semantic technologies, time evolved modeling, combined with the story telling and folklore choreography. An important output of the project will be a Web based cultural server/viewer with the purpose to allow user’s interaction, visualization, interface with existing cultural libraries (EUROPEANA) and enrichment functionalities to result in virtual surrogates and media application scenarios that release the potential economic impact of the ICH. The final product will support a set of services such as virtual/augmented reality, social media, interactive maps, presentation and learning of European Folk dances with tremendous impact on the European society, culture and tourism""

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION · ATHINACoordinatorGreece
7REASONS MEDIEN GMBH · AbsdorfAustria
ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · THESSALONIKIGreece
ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES · Marne La Vallee Cedex 2France
ENVIRONMENTAL RELIABILITY AND RISK ANALYSIS · ATHENSGreece
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS · THERMI THESSALONIKIGreece
EXUS SOFTWARE LTD · LondonUnited Kingdom
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · LondonUnited Kingdom
Masarykova univerzita · BrnoCzechia
RISA SICHERHEITSANALYSEN GMBH · BerlinGermany
TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU · LemesosCyprus
UAB METIS BALTIC · VilniusLithuania

Terpsichore · Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects

Results in brief

Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects

Project objective

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